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Record traffic at the LIBN online poll this week as we asked readers what to do with the EPCAL property at Calverton now that a proposed ski mountain has suffered a meltdown.
The first rush came from motor sports enthusiasts, who blasted us for not including an auto sports option as part of the poll. Once ...

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We have been trying to explain the facts to the last board and the new board at Riverhead town.

In fact the town of Riverhead has more fact and studies on the benefits of motorsports both economically and as a good neighbor uniting a community then probably anywhere else in the U.S.

We have managed to bring them a builder, and were the only organization warning the town since 2006 that RR didn’t have the money.
Had the town board of 07,08,09 paid attention during there Q&E they would have heard clearly they had not even 10% of the purchase price and nothing of the proposals cost to build..

Instead they waited out the last builder as they have done 7 times before that…

The town board enables us to point out the incompetence as they perform it…
just as they are doing now, letting 15 people lose there jobs and squandering money on a redevlopment plan when sucgh a study was just done a few years ago, but a lazy town super doesn’t want to read the 600 page study…

Instead they want to waste that money, rather then save the needed jobs they’re about to lose…

To the staff at Long Island Business News, thank you very much for the kind words and honesty. We are taxpayers who are underserved by our representatives at all levels of government. We endure bias, that if endured by any other group of like minded taxpayers, would not go unnoticed. We are finally being heard and being supported and articles like yours help us greatly.
Thank You,
Arthur Bichsel
Long Island Motorports Association member

Historically we the Motorsports Community have been rather lethargic with our efforts to garner support for a Motorsports facility on Long Island, so it is about time we finally are showing up in reasonable numbers and rendering our opinions. That said, thank you to Long Island Business News for their article. In order to be politically effective our numbers that support this effort needs to grow, so all of you sitting on the sidelines waiting for the outcome need to have their voices heard if we are to be successful. At a time when the economy is at a nearly all-time low such a facility would bring mush needed jobs and business to our area (are you listening Mr. Levy?).

I would like to thank the publishers of LIBN for your poll and this piece. A nonbias well informed news source is a breath of fresh air.The second line of the quote you selected is why I’ve spent more than six years of my spare time out there working with LIMA and LongIslandDragRacing.com Lives can be saved.

dear libn thank you for the poll on your website to reflect the opinion of the motorsport community i am a member of limotorsports.org ,.i look forward to reading the libn & i consider you a good source for news !!

I also would like to thank LIBN for reporting on this very important issue.The poll results only indicate a very small showing of the motorsports community that resides on Long Island.Keep up the great reporting!!!!!

Other news reporting has always tried to make us look bad. We (drag racers) come for all walks of life from the guy that can barely make ends meet to they big lawyers and presidents of companies. It takes a lot of mechanical skills to design and build a race car.

I moved to Suffolk county 12 years ago so I could be near a track to race my car (West Hampton). It was great to have a track near by. I could wake up at 8 am and decide to go racing that day and be at the track 15 minutes after I load the car on the trailer. Now I have to plan it at least a week a head of time, watch the weather, load my car the day before, then travel 2-4 hours (one direction) depending on traffic. It cost the average racer that lives on LI $300+ to get to a track and race. If we had a local track we could go more then 5 times a year and spend our my money here on LI not in NJ. Long Island needs a race track!!!

Bring back DRAG RACING to L.I.
I was brought up around cars ,Both my kid,s were brought up at the HAMPTONS DRAG STRIP as were many others it is and has always been a family sport.

Thank you LIBN for a great article and not ignoring the need for racing on L.I.

This will regenerate all the motor sports fans on L.I.
The Voting was high and the more people I tell they had no idea that any thing was going on.
If the poll was left open the numbers would be amazing

To the Staff at Long Island Business News, Thank you very much on behalf of myself and all our Members from the Long Island Motorsports Association…

The motorsports community and our association is made up of many different styles of motorsports, Drag Racing, Karting, Oval racing, Off-road recreational and Off-road racing and Road course racing.

Only one form barely exists today on Long Island, and that is Riverhead Raceway, a 1,320 foot oval, everything else is gone.
All we want for Christmas is a place to race, a few hundred acres at Epcal.

The history and heritage of motorsports on long island goes all the way back to the year 1900, with thanks to the Vanderbilt family, without their insight to bring motorsports to the U.S. and specifically Long Island our history here would be, well boring and truly the land of no.
Riverhead town was the 1st place to hold THE 1st stock car race that had all the big car makers competing against eachother….
Thru that race in Riverhead town came better designs, better cars…

We can be the place that again makes many firsts in the Automotive and Aftermarket industry as we have done in the past.

All We want for Christmas is a safe place to race with our families. A few hundred acres at Epcal…

see this video see all the people that attend that # has grown 10x yet no motor sport venue in nassau or suffolk ,,, river head race way they can only hold 28 events a year yes,, riverhead township regulates them lets do that to tanger mall !!!.. PLAIN & SIMPLE
a motrsport facility with a qtr mile drag strip & oval track & a dirt track for motor cross WHAT WIL THIS BRING PEOPLE FROM THE TRI STATE AREA SPENDING $$$$, BUSINESS THAT IS DESPERATLY NEEDED IN SUFFOLK COUNTY you cant go shopping in the town of riverhead because all the stores are closed up OOHH NEWSDAY NEVER SHOWS PICS OF THAT OH NO ,.
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